Elvis responded on 28 Jul 2009 with…

Useful and easy plugin. But I think it would be nice if you could add a function, that limits the chars/words in the textarea to the maxCount var, maybe by removing the letters higher than maxVCount in a nice animated manner. Hope you got the idea, my english is not so ggod.

Elvis responded on 28 Jul 2009 with…

I tried something out:

after

else var count = options.maxCount - countable.val().length;

I inserted

/* Just a try */ var thecontent = countable.val(); if (count < 0){ countable.val(thecontent.substring(0,options.maxCount)); } else { countable.val(thecontent); }

Works for me, but I am by no means a programmer. I am sure there is a much nicer way to do that

Aaron responded on 28 Jul 2009 with…

Cheers Elvis. That’s a good idea, although I think that behaviour should be optional. When I next work on the plugin I’ll try and add such an option.

Thanks.

Maniquí responded on 2 Sep 2009 with…

Nice plugin, thanks for sharing! It works pretty well. Just one minor issue, I think. I was having a “countable.val is undefined” error, so I fixed it doing the folowing (my JS sucks, so feel free to do it the correct way)

  if (options.countType === 'words' && typeof countable.val() != 'undefined'){
    var count = options.maxCount - countable.val().split(/[\s]+/).length;
    if (countable.val() === '') count += 1;
  }
  else if (options.countType === 'characters' && typeof countable.val() != 'undefined') {
    var count = options.maxCount - countable.val().length;
  }

Just to learn, do you spot any possible issue (crossbrowsing issues?) with that solution?

Thanks again!

Aaron responded on 20 Sep 2009 with…

@Maniqui - Many thanks for letting me know about the val is undefined error. I presume that’s happening in Internet Explorer? Either way I’ll look into it and get a fix put into the source code. Thanks again.

Andreas responded on 24 Feb 2010 with…

I really love using your simplyCountable plugin for my textareas, but I ran into a little problem. If I make some paragraphs in a textbox with the enter key, one character less is shown in the box with characters left. At server-side validation this isn’t true, because the paragraphs are reproduced as something like “\r\n” in the string. How could I manage, that this is considered in the box with characters left? Thank you for your help! Andreas

Drew responded on 23 Apr 2010 with…

love the plugin. I’ve noticed that the cursor stays at the end of the sentence i’m typing and won’t go back if i make a mistake. Is there some way around this? Thanks

Huw responded on 26 Jul 2010 with…

Is it possible to bind your code to the onpaste event, seems I have some user who prefer to paste text into the boxes and it bypasses the count :)

Frode Bang responded on 14 Nov 2010 with…

Great, easy to use plug-in! It would be nice to see a 0.5 update with support for enter key in textareas, and perhaps a more frequent refresh of the count than onKeyUp.